This week we asked readers their thoughts on the decision by the Daily News to cut its newsroom staff by nearly 50 percent and what effect, if any, would it have on coverage of our borough.

That’s discouraging for the simple fact that those resources they’re letting go are the resources that scoop the information from this area that is valuable to us, and I think it makes us vulnerable now with what’s going on around us. I get my news from the Daily News and I’m disappointed about this decision.
Alexander Vega
Kingsbridge

 

People today are getting their news by phone and mobile devices on the Internet. Will it affect people in the Bronx? Hell yes, because we see a majority of the stories they cover are happening in Manhattan, Harlem and Wall Street, but in my opinion, they are going to miss the most important stories here in the Bronx where people are struggling with poverty and income. Of course, the Bronx has been overlooked for years regarding news coverage. I get a lot of my news from word of mouth from the community and social media.
Chris Davis
Castle Hill

I think some important stories are going to get left out now, because the Daily News was a good source for uncovering stories and I don’t know if any other paper can pull that off like they did. Honestly, the Daily News was my favorite newspaper and the only newspaper I ever bought. I don’t know how it’s going to affect the Bronx, but it will. I get a lot of my information from Channel 7 news. I don’t really buy the newspaper anymore. It got too expensive actually. I also get it through social media as well.
Frank Pimentel
Yankee Stadium

I sometimes buy the newspaper when I go to school or when I come home from work. I don’t know if the layoffs will have an effect on their coverage of the Bronx. I think all of the papers do a decent job covering the borough, but I’m not very concerned about it.
Gleyni Martinez
Mount Hope

 

I think it will have a negative effect. A lot of people losing jobs at the Daily News, they’ve been around so long. How are they going to push half their staff out that fast and be able to stay on point and up to date with all that’s going on in the world today? Yes, we need it bad. I watch Eyewitness News every morning and I come out every Sunday morning and get the Daily News to get the news and get the coupons for my wife inside the paper. I also read the local papers or get it on my tablet and get what the Daily News doesn’t give us. I understand that because they’re online, but they don’t give you everything online, whereas the newspaper tells you exactly what happened.
Garry Reynolds
Belmont